Originally posted
to rec.games.trading-cards.misc on 3 Oct 1997 by Andrew Davidson. Republished
with permission. Read the original with a newsreader or Google
if you prefer.

Joshua Kronengold
won the GenCon 1997 National Championships
using this deck. He is constantly retuning it, and keeps it up to date with
new sets, but I don't have a more recent listing for you.

WALK SOFTLYby Joshua
Kronengold

This is the big
deck of 1997 - the winner of the US Nationals tournament at Gencon. Interesting
then that it is one of the smallest decks to be published here - just 48 cards.

Joshua has used
the deck for some time but is continually changing the exact mix. The overall
concept remains the same though - seize an early advantage with cheap events
like Final Brawl and "Now You've Made Us Mad" and then bring out "big sticks"
like Ting Ting to win the game.

The choice of foundation
characters - Average Joe, Hacker and Stunt Man - is interesting. I would have
thought that they were too few and too expensive to work well but I'm not used
to playing a deck like this. Certainly the Hacker did good service for Joshua
in one case - I played Covert Op on him during a threatening attack and chose
to make him discard the Charmed Life instead. I regretted this choice when he
then burnt for power and hacked my Jellyfish - d'oh!

Joshua is a Shadowfist
veteran - his name appears in the 1st edition playtest credits. He has held
the top slot in the Proving Ground at New York's Neutral Ground for many weeks
and regularly crosses swords with the redoubtable Dennis Heffernan. A man to
be watched and a worthy champion.